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Blind Man: (various comic antics)

Is the wench gone? Are we safe? Is her Rich Father nigh?

May she marry a pig! May she choke on a pie!

Tom Fool: (sudden shout)

Halt! Not a step! Don’t move, dear master!

At your feet lies a new disaster.

The earth opens up a ditch to Hell.

You’ll break your neck if in you fell.

Blind Man: (freezes in place — of course, there is no hole)

Why and when and what hole is where?

Guide me, Tom Fool, and do not err.

Tom Fool:

To the right five steps, hop on one foot thrice.

Grab your dick and shake it twice.

Now on your knees and suck in your gut.

Tom lowers his pants and waves his bare buttocks in the Blind Man’s face.

This crack is so deep it can swallow you up.

Blind Man: (steps, hops, shakes and crouches, then sniffs)

I smell the devil’s corrupt pit.

Turn me aside that I may escape it.

Tom Fool: (pulls up pants)

Slowly, slowly, creep backward some

Five paces. Now stand. Turn three times around.

Hurry, be quick, as fast as you dare,

Run forward and jump high in the air.

Blind Man: (creeps, stands, turns, takes running leap off the cart)

He crashes into the shrieking crowd, performs remarkable flips and tumbles interspersed with his roars of fury.

You diseased boil! You plague sore!

You chamberpot for a one-legged whore!

Ditch born demon spawn!

I’ll chase you to Hell where you belong!

Up leaps Blind Man and — what’s this? — pulls the bandage up, the better to see as he climbs back on the stage and chases Tom in circles while whipping the boy with his stick.

Tom Fool:

Stick, stock, stone dead! This Blind Man can see!

Every knave must have a slave, and I am he!

Tom dodges and darts as he is thwacked across the haunches by the not-so-Blind Man’s slapstick. The device has moveable slats on a leather hinge. At each blow the wood pieces bang together with an explosive crack! People laugh themselves silly with the great good humor of it.

At last the not-so-Blind Man delivers a fierce whack that causes Tom Fool to fall down and, with suitable drama, to die.

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Lively’s Way - Bear Boy z: GB0187